Monday, December 15, 2008

Can You Get Herpes Your Nose Or Ears

"As God Commands" by Gabriele Salvatores


Carry on the screen almost 500 pages of the novel is not easy. Even more so if those 500 pages are intertwined with the stories as much as 4 main characters, plus a couple of supporting actors whose lives come together in a single night in a single storm that upsets me is not only the country those same lives forever.
Salvatores tries, picking up a second time a literary work in Amman and supperto with the car itself to screenplay author screen door than 500 pages. The result is frankly disappointing.
It said that of course the book was widely streamlined, literally amputee for most of the events narrated, and it was necessary to focus attention only on certain characters. The choice is obviously Rino and his son Christian protagonists of the film and between Donald and Four Cheese, the two friends Rino, the choice fell on the latter preferring then the murder of the girl in the robbery at the ATM.
The choice in my opinion it seems to me correct. Donato also maintain the character, with all its painful past (his daughter's death and the separation of his wife) too much attention was removed from father and son and was really a story in itself.
Four Cheese instead, and his murder becomes an excuse to investigate further the relationship between Christ and lunge Rino.

what is the problem? E 'which seems a bit' rushed, a bit 'surface. The storm that night of rain and lightning to change the lives of the characters loses all meaning from the symbolic to the book. We talk a lot of influence Shakespieriana, but just one element of the tragic story turns into just a scenic element without value. And where is God? What is the point in the movie title? Check out the end, but without force, without weight. The transposition of letters from the film that I always need plenty of changes, changes in narrative structure, calculated for grafts and amputations, but always without distorting the story, the characters and the essence of the novel. Here it seems to me that you borrow the characters to put together what looks like a single episode of a larger story. The film takes you as it should do, it always seems that sooner or later take-offs, this is only an introduction to something more comprehensive and yet nothing.

do not know, maybe knowing the novel a sense of exaggerated synthesis is amplified, but it is undeniable that at the end Salvatores (which no longer hit a decent film since '97 except for "I'm Not Scared") has created a work banalotta quite a distortion of what was good in the work of Amman. The result is something completely different, as a bond that has only the names of the characters and little else. "As God Commands" is one of the transpositions that lead me to wonder what sense to make a film about a romance novel if he ends up taking a good bit. Write an original story is not it? If it is so difficult to carry 500 pages written from Amman on the screen why do it? Okay rhetorical questions I know, but hopefully some smart director (Salvatores and should be) Porsel end up before a film like that.

positive note for the excellent cast including Filippo Timi, Elio Germano and debutant Alvaro Caleca.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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December - late

I know that the delay is never a good presentation, but between work, boyfriend and I have no new house to be placed almost time for me ... hairdresser calls me that the neglect ... (That tells me you are right ... and indecent !!!), my friends tell me that I've forgotten about them ....

remain fixed points of my life: the course and several drinks ... a boyfriend ... and home appliance!!

my usual each month I offer the fruits and vegetables that can be found in the ice cream market stalls, not in the sense of frozen ice, but little lacking considering the current temperatures:

FRUIT


Oranges
If the pulp is dry, it means that have been kept for too long, if it means that the sour fruit ripening did not occur naturally. In a cool, remain one week.

Avocado
to buy not yet fully mature, to let it at room temperature. It is eaten when it is soft but not soft.

Cachi
If you buy the unripe fruit, place them on a tray and store in a dry place without light up at the right ripeness. If you buy them ripe, put them in the least cold of the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Chestnuts
The chestnuts can be stored in a cool, dry place for a couple of months. If the first cooked and peeled, you can also freeze. In this way they last 6 months.

Dates
fresh ones (probably have already been frozen) to peel, dry foods are eaten whole. We recommend the purchase of packaged dates, for reasons of hygiene.

Kiwi
If purchased green, leave it in the refrigerator in a closed bag, preferably with another fruit. When it is too ripe, it tastes bad.

mandarin oranges or clementines
born from a cross between the mandarin and orange. The flavor is sweet and the flesh is seedless. Purchase must be intact and firm, not soft.

Mandarins
essential characteristic of this fruit is the scent. It can be kept at room temperature for 2-3 days, if you want to save more, put it in a cool place.

Grapefruit
What this in our markets is mainly imported. It keeps well, so it is readily available throughout the year, also in pink variant.

Pere
If mature (the pulp is soft under a light finger pressure) are kept in the refrigerator for a week. If unripe, should be left at room temperature.

VEGETABLES


Broccoli
You can keep hanging upside down in a cool place or refrigerator for several days. Alternatively, you can freeze them cooked.

thistle or cardoon
of this vegetable is eaten the stem, and fleshy flavor similar to artichokes. It is preserved in a refrigerator for a week in a plastic bag with small holes.


Cauliflower Cauliflower, very compact in the flesh, keeps well in refrigerator up to five days, without dark spots.

Turnip greens
Delicate as highly exposed to external agents, turnip greens should be consumed as soon as possible.

Fennel
Put them in bags with small holes no larger green ribs: in this way are kept in a cool place for about ten days. You can also freeze them, after they are boiled.

endive
more the color of the leaves is dark, it should be eaten first. Often, endive, if kept for too long, they become bitter.

Leek
Eliminate the hardest part of the leaves, clean and dry. So you can keep them long in the refrigerator sealed in plastic bags slightly hollow.

Radicchio
closed in a plastic bag or wrapped in a kitchen towel, can be stored in the refrigerator for a week.

Pumpkin
If preserved whole and in a cool, pumpkin will keep for months. Once cut, you can store in the refrigerator for up to one week.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Remove Nordic Bindings

change of purpose for Allen and Shyamalan


In this post I will not comment any film. I'm just a consideration on the final two films in the light of the recent vision of their respective DVD. The film "Cassandra's Dream" by Woody Allen and "The Happening" by M. Night Shyamalan. (For the record that I love are both authors). Both films left me puzzled with regard to the final. The first ended too hastily with that shot of the boat the two brothers who seem to have no apparent meaning, the other one with a feel-good and too out curtain familiar place. Now, reviewing the film on DVD I realized those finals and I've re-evaluated. Here's how.

As for Allen's film, I admit that I could make this argument directly in the room, but when I had not thought of. Blame the translator of the securities. "Cassandra's Dream" in fact as well known is the Italian title of the film, while the original "Cassandra's Dream," Cassandra's dream. Cassandra, Priam's daughter, according to Greek mythology Apollo was a gift from the power to foretell the future. His, however, were dire predictions, which nobody believed. It was, therefore, the bearer of doom and tragedy.
In the film, Cassandra's dream as the two brothers damage to their boat, with the hope that this will bring him luck in view of the plans, particularly financial, which have in mind. But things will go in an entirely different way. The dream of prosperity soon will turn into tragedy.
Woody Allen decided to close the film going to frame their own boat, the scene of their death as well as the final implementation of foreboding. Quell'inquadratura going to close with dignity the tragic dream going to show how everything was already planned from the outset. With the purchase of the boat and especially the choice of that name (which derives from the name of one of the dogs on which Terry had gambled at the track and through whom won the money needed to buy the boat) Terry and Ian have marked their lives. We viewers knew from the beginning, or at least we should have and Allen reminds us that with his shot in close. Just because the story of Terry and Ian is the story of a prophecy, an omen of tragedy that Cassandra had told us from the beginning.

The second final this time, more sense thanks to the recently released DVD. "The Happening" the latest work by one of the most exciting contemporary filmmakers, M. Night Shyamalan, ends with a family picture in which we find Alma pending the outcome of the pregnancy test. The result is positive and happy all down the streets to announce the happy news to her husband. Final frankly absurd and completely out of context, better suited to a B-movie than a work of an author's careful and original as Shyamalan. It must be said that in the meantime, according to the same director, there were actually beginning to realize the intentions of a good B movie, but in all this amp really seemed more a constraint from the production of the original idea that a director.
Instead, I understand the intentions of Shyamalan and the function of this final viewing the scenes of the film. These include the original opening sequence of the film that, dfferenza the "final cut", did not begin in Central Park, but but at the home of Alma and Elliot in the middle of a fight. Alma reveals to her husband does not feel protected by him, to see him again as a child, was not ready for this to have a child and have always been convinced that he would never have given him the security he needs.

In view of this scene, it is clear what were the intentions of Shyamalan to installation. The movie ends at home because Moore started Moore home. The dramatic events that have shaken the world in the end, paradoxically, put away the situational sentimental character. The tragedy led to Elliot and Alma to face, to discover themselves and to help Elliot finally reaches up to that Alma time was always one step forward and we feel insecure and alone. In the midst of this situation as a couple, suddenly, without explanation Nature rebels and panic breaks out. 45 years ago were the birds which sowed death and madness among the people, now nature is manifested in other ways, then, the horror ends as it began, without reason, without any signal. Life returns to normal, with the knowledge that we are not and will never be masters of the world, that we are only guests of a reality much more powerful than us. And life goes on for this couple but now that has changed. Elliot has been shown to be able to take care of Alma and now that the two are now for the first time something alone, you may be happy to give birth to a child. Why then it is this that speaks the film: the human need of having to look inside themselves, to break away from the group, by the company to really understand who we are and who else (this is shown by the necessity of allegorical characters increasingly isolated in small groups to escape the toxin).

The scene was scrapped during assembly by Shyamalan, because it ended up right in the face to the viewer blurt out all the emotional situation of the two characters in the first 5 minutes. While, in this way, we gradually discover what happens between the two, what they think and what they feel, hearing about a debate, a fight which we know nothing but that can give depth to the characters.
Now one may ask, but if you've decided to start this off, why not remove the finish that now has no meaning?
The reason is that the decision was made during assembly, when the film was already shot and beautiful and not at the script. A beginning can be changed, simply discard the scene and begin with a scene 2. But this is not done with the final at least, just not yet time to write and girarne a new one. Delete the final scene of the pregnancy test was not possible just because there There was no final disposition. You could not end up with Elliot and Alma that meet on the lawn, nor with the only scene in Paris. It was necessary to use force provided the only conclusion that even if they are not significant, was the only possible one.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Play Pregnancy Test Games

" The Circus Charlie Chaplin

I never felt a feeling of sadness when I watch movies such as Chaplin. It may seem paradoxical, but he had the extraordinary ability to move from a gag comic that makes you bend over with laughter to the sad, sad sequence was extraordinary.
And then, Chaplin was the true essence of art in the academic meaning of the term. One who observes reality and filters it through his talent, and repeats it to the public in the form of film, novel, painting, music, photography to show what others have not seen, to shed light on what's around you.
"Circus" is one of those movies that contains within it all Chaplin and maybe something more. There is his humor, is his stage presence is his melancholy, his gentleness, his creative talent behind the camera. There are even his music and his voice, the song that runs over the opening credits.
In its continuous pilgrimage for the world, or rather in its continual escape from the authorities, the Tramp this time is found in a circus, where he becomes unwillingly involved in a number of clowns, so far at all funny, that thanks to the presence of Charlie Chaplin ends up being the highlight of the show. For this reason, the tramp will be recruited and can see for yourself the petty and violent world of the circus. The star that breaks in the opening movie and the door opens and in full force and joy propels us into the magical world of the circus. World that after a few moments we discover to be anything but magical. It 's a world of violence, absurd and wild. Made of fathers owners, talent exploitation, meanness, dirty tricks and follies. In short, the circus looks a lot like our world, our society.
Charlot There is catapulted into and ends up stuck in the gears of society, as in the days of ... "Modern Times".

the scene is emblematic of the number on the rope. Charlot is forced by the circus director to make something that is not good, ends up literally put his life in balance on a wire, with the absurdity and folly of the world (the monkeys) that the ill-treated, they try to cause it to fail . He finds himself with nothing, still in his underwear and even in the end, thanks to its ability to be able to save themselves. A scene that perfectly synthesizer pessimism with which Chaplin was looking at the world around him, the society of owners willing to let mutant in order not to fail, but from which only the artists, with their talent are able to save themselves.
Splendide also the famous sequence of the hall of mirrors, (poster of the meticulousness with which Chaplin study his gag in which everything was calculated to perfection), the discovery by Charlot girl's love for Rex and its collapse his hopes and dreams (this is one of those extraordinary sequences melancholy of his films) and the ending. On an empty lawn in the center of the circle left by the tent on the grass, Charlot, let him go after his love, stay there, with the Star of paper in hand appollottola and takes away, leaving behind that world and resumes its journey towards the infinite, alone, but still pure.